Anthropic Code Execution vs Vercel Sandbox
Anthropic Code Execution costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour and Vercel Sandbox costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. Anthropic Code Execution runs containers. Vercel Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Anthropic Code Execution
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- 1,550 free hours per month
- Max session
- Not listed
Vercel Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 5 CPU-hours every month
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Anthropic Code Execution
Vercel Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Anthropic Code Execution: $0.05
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Anthropic Code Execution: Included
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
- Free tier
- Anthropic Code Execution: 1,550 free hours per month
- Vercel Sandbox: 5 CPU-hours every month
- Billing
- Anthropic Code Execution: Bundled machine time
- Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- Anthropic Code Execution: 1 vCPU · 5 GiB
- Vercel Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Isolation
- Anthropic Code Execution: Container
- Vercel Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Anthropic Code Execution: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby
- Vercel Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Anthropic Code Executionplatform
Vercel Sandboxvercel
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Anthropic Code Execution: $0.05
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.128
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Anthropic Code Execution: Included
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.0212
- Storage
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: On Pro, snapshots $0.08 per GB-month and drives $0.05 per GB-month (beta).
- Free tier
- Anthropic Code Execution: 1,550 free hours per month
- Vercel Sandbox: 5 CPU-hours every month
- Paid plan from
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: $20 / month
- Billing
- Anthropic Code Execution: Bundled machine time
- Vercel Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Anthropic Code Execution: 1 vCPU · 5 GiB
- Vercel Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Up to 10,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Anthropic Code Execution: Container
- Vercel Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Anthropic Code Execution:
- Vercel Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Anthropic Code Execution: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby
- Vercel Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Anthropic Code Execution: Not listed
- Vercel Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Anthropic Code Execution
Vercel Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Anthropic Code Execution: $0.050
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.170
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Anthropic Code Execution: $0.100
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.341
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Anthropic Code Execution: $0.200
- Vercel Sandbox: $0.682
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Anthropic Code Execution fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.100 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Vercel Sandbox fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or Claude Code.
- You need snapshots.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
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